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I Had 3 Of The Leopard Problems...here's How I Solved Them

Had no problems

Fortunately, I had no problems installing Leopard on my PowerBook G4 (768/1.5 G4) or my MPB (2GB 677 Mhz/2.2 Intel).

I did a back up with the software provided from my .mac account, then did a dirty drag-n-drop of all third party apps to an external hard drive (probably double work given the back up), deleted all those 3rd party apps from main computer, really leaving only Apple programs. Emptied trash. This freed up tons of space on my hard drive.

Used Disk Utility to Verify and Repair permissions.

Before installation, I ejected all USB or Firewire Hard Drives.

Started install. Chose Archive and Install. Let it verify the DVD for consistency, then let the install run.

Seemed the DVD started and stopped a lot, and the last “less than a minute” notification was like the last minute of an NFL football game..took over 30 minutes.

But, once complete, it restarted my computer, updated the software, registered OSX and everything is working fine.

Very pleased.

Next, the Mac Mini (512/1.5 G4)...”I’m goin’ in”
 
OK, how about if you only have one mac?

My problem is similar. I put in the Leopard disc, I choose install, it asks me for my admin password after hitting restart, and the disc is ejected. When it restarts, it won't read the disc. I've tried holding down c throughout the process, as well as booting from "leopard" as start-up disc. Same eject situation. Anyone found a way to keep the disc in? I don;t have access to another Mac, otherwise I'd try what's been said. Anyone had similar ejecting disc problems, and figured out a way to keep it in while rebooting. Any help would be super! I've never, ever had trouble with an install, Mac or PC, before. I guess there's a first time for everything.
 
My problem

I have a g5 1.8ghz dualie. I installed leopard on a new 500gb hd to avoid any updating problems. I tried to install multiple times but got stuck at install will finish in about a minute. Finally after the 4th or 5th try, it installed. Now when it boots up to the nice Leopard desktop, it freezes after about 1 minute.

Anyone else having this problem?
 
About issue 2, the reason behind it is its actualy running FSCK on it, on some drives it does this, dunno why.
 
unplug all your firewire devices

sellegood said:
My problem is similar. I put in the Leopard disc, I choose install, it asks me for my admin password after hitting restart, and the disc is ejected. When it restarts, it won't read the disc. I've tried holding down c throughout the process, as well as booting from "leopard" as start-up disc. Same eject situation. Anyone found a way to keep the disc in? I don;t have access to another Mac, otherwise I'd try what's been said. Anyone had similar ejecting disc problems, and figured out a way to keep it in while rebooting. Any help would be super! I've never, ever had trouble with an install, Mac or PC, before. I guess there's a first time for everything.
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I had the same problem and it got me so mad I was about the pick up my mac pro and throw it out of the window. I zapped the p-ram (holding down command option and p and r) and then unplugged all of the firewire devices. It seemed that as long as another firewire DVD burner was plugged in, the internal would reject the install disk.

Finally got it working and I am so happy...

I hope it helps!
 
Leopard issue and misinformation

:mad:

Received Leopard Friday 30th November AM. Still trying to resolve the issues caused by the installation Monday 3rd December PM!

I noticed after the installation that iphoto application was not working. (was fine pre installation) Tried a few fixes and then called Apple support.

No real advise given, just lots of suggestions as what to dump, delete and move around. VERY ODD! Echos of the very first OS X.....

Finally told to do archive and install.... that would solve it and then down load a new version of iphoto!

No luck : Saturday hours of messing about and more duff advise!! Major crash this time - black and white screen and no way to switch on computer - panic setting in! (still following online support advise which led to this!)

Final bit of advise from Apple support do a clean install! Hours of backing up - as a musician this took a long time to achieve using an old machine fire wired in so I could see what was in my hard drive etc....

Did a clean install and STILL NO iphoto!

Called Apple again .... this time technical support told me... AS YOUR MACHINE IS 4 ( G5 with dual processor 2 gig circa 2003) YEARS OLD THE VERSION OF ILIFE ON YOUR MACHINE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH LEOPARD AND I WOULD NEED TO PURCHASE ILIFE 08!!! AND THAT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOLD THIS AT THE FISRT CALL!!!!!!

Personally I think it should have been information made clear at the time of purchasing Leopard.

SO BEWARE!! If you have an older model you will need to upgrade ilife 08 at the same time.

Hope this solve the problem! :confused:
 
It has nothing to do with the age of the computer, btw, simply the age of the software. We knew that some software would not be compatible with Leopard, and in this case an update has been released: it's called iLife '08, and it's fully Leopard compatible.

Nothing to whine about.

jW
 
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